When Jeff Lieberman mixes science and art, the result will amaze you.

The YouTube video of "End Love" from the groundbreaking pop quartet OK Go is an eye-popping display of how we perceive things. Four musicians glide around a park while not moving their feet, in an effect created by time-lapse photography.

The genius behind the video is Jeff Lieberman, who will talk about the connection between art and science on Saturday as the featured presenter at Da Vinci Science Center's Science Works weekend. Lieberman is best known as host of the former Discovery Channel series "Time Warp," which showcased videos shot with high-speed photography.

Lieberman, who describes himself as a "musician wrapped in a roboticist sculptor wrapped in a photographer," will show photos and videos from "Time Warp" as well as other videos of his projects during the presentation at Cedar Crest College.

Lieberman's goal is to inspire a passion for science. He says he is driven by curiosity about the world.

"I grew up taking for granted science and math were magical," says Lieberman, 34. "It took me a while to find out most people thought science was boring. What I do is really a selfish thing, because I have the image in my head of what I want to see myself."

Lieberman holds four degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he works in the robotics labs. He says what most fascinates him is being able to see things that are beyond the limitations of human perception.

"It's literally magic when you see something you don't understand," he says. "Your mind goes to another place. That's the state of wonder and awe."

"Science and technology are embedded in awe," he continues. "We used to feel that way just by looking up at the sky. But now we live in a world where we all have smart phones and we don't sit and take in the wonder and beauty. Everything I look at is much richer because I have an insatiable curiosity."

Melding art and science didn't always come naturally for Lieberman.

"I was doing art work, playing piano and drums since I was 3 years old," says Lieberman, who also explored photography. "I also was really interested in science and math. But there seemed to be no overlap. There was no interconnection between the two separate worlds."

He says having passions for both fields became stressful when he went to college and he was expected to focus on one or the other.

Robotics changed all that.

"I started making artistic and aesthetic robots people could interact with," he says. "It was like the 'eureka' moment."

Then for his college final project, he designed electronic technology to allow him to see parts of nature the eye couldn't normally see.

"At 23, my worlds collided," he says. "Then it all started exploding."

Discovery Channel discovered Lieberman's ultra slow-motion videos online and approached him about hosting a new science series with high-speed photographer Matt Kearney.

"I think they wanted me because I was fluent in both the world of science and photography," Liberman says.

"Time Warp" debuted in 2008 and ran for three seasons.

On the show, the two men screened videos of things slowed down through high-speed photography. They ranged from the simple — dogs shaking water off their coats — to the crazy — chopping up lighters in a blender, which ended in a spectacular ball of flame.

"We showed things no one ever sees with the naked eye," Lieberman says. "We explored things like: What does it look like when a soap bubble pops? We showed how it creates a tear and rips open slowly at 1/100th of a second. There's still a lot we are missing."

At MIT, Lieberman has worked on projects such as the Cyberflora installation, a robotic flower garden that senses and responds to people in a lifelike manner, and the Motor Learning Robotic Wearable Suit, which helps teach the wearer to dance and learn sports by providing motor feedback for the body.

He also makes kinetic art sculptures.

"They are sculptures that only work because of the weird way eyes don't capture everything," Lieberman says.

An example of his kinetic sculpture is "Slink," a resonated spring that is strobe-lit at a rate faster than human perception, which makes it appear to do things that seem impossible.

Another is "Moore Pattern," a play on a Moire pattern in which two patterned wheels are rotated in opposite directions to create a moving optical illusion.

"Generally the theme of my art is using my knowledge of science to get past the limitations of our eyes," he says. "A 5-year-old can walk to these pieces and realize he is being fooled. I hope to trigger a feeling of curiosity as the viewer tries to figure out how it works."

The "how does it do that?" effect is instrumental to another of his works — "Light Bulb," an electromagnetically levitating light bulb that floats in midair and stays lit without any physical contact.